# Co-Founder & CTO

About the Role Join an early-stage AI marketing technology company as an equal technical co-founder, owning research strategy, product development, and team building. You will build a training and evaluation platform for creative AI, using data from a live product to improve how creative work is generated and assessed. What You'll Do Set technical and research strategy, advancing current workflows into a proprietary training and evaluation platform. Build data infrastructure connecting briefs, submissions, generation traces, decisions, critiques, and campaign outcomes. Develop systems to evaluate, rank, critique, generate, and improve creative work. Design allocation policies that direct campaign budgets and inform dataset collection. Make decisions about frontier models, fine-tuning, post-training, reinforcement learning, and original research. Build reliable infrastructure for creator workflows, campaigns, experimentation, training, and inference. Establish standards for data quality, consent, privacy, measurement, and model evaluation. Recruit and lead the initial engineering and research team, and work directly with creators and brands. What We're Looking For Hands-on r

- **Id**: 3946202
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-co-founder-cto-9>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: cofounder
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-08T17:16:34Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-08
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T12:50:36Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2446
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 2706
- **Name**: Clera
- **Domain**: getclera.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/clera>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 40
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reward Modeling** — Optional: no
- **RLHF** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-08T20:42:58Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 45; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 45 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 32
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.354
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:2, agency, stale_co, velocity, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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